EP3994313B1 - Sliding subsea foundations - Google Patents

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EP3994313B1
EP3994313B1 EP20751623.8A EP20751623A EP3994313B1 EP 3994313 B1 EP3994313 B1 EP 3994313B1 EP 20751623 A EP20751623 A EP 20751623A EP 3994313 B1 EP3994313 B1 EP 3994313B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B17/00—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L1/00—Laying or reclaiming pipes; Repairing or joining pipes on or under water
    • F16L1/12—Laying or reclaiming pipes on or under water
    • F16L1/123—Devices for the protection of pipes under water
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02D—FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS; UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES
    • E02D27/00—Foundations as substructures
    • E02D27/32—Foundations for special purposes
    • E02D27/52—Submerged foundations, i.e. submerged in open water
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B41/00—Equipment or details not covered by groups E21B15/00 - E21B40/00
    • E21B41/0007—Equipment or details not covered by groups E21B15/00 - E21B40/00 for underwater installations
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16L1/00—Laying or reclaiming pipes; Repairing or joining pipes on or under water
    • F16L1/12—Laying or reclaiming pipes on or under water
    • F16L1/20—Accessories therefor, e.g. floats or weights
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B17/00—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor
    • E02B2017/0039—Methods for placing the offshore structure
    • E02B2017/0043—Placing the offshore structure on a pre-installed foundation structure

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  • This invention relates to sliding foundations for heavy subsea structures placed on seabed soils, in particular as may be required in the offshore oil and gas industry.
  • Examples of such structures include towheads of subsea pipeline bundles and accessories incorporated in subsea pipelines.
  • a pipeline bundle comprising two or more parallel rigid pipelines can be fabricated and tested onshore as part of a towable unit.
  • the unit further comprises an enlarged structure, known in the art as a towhead, disposed at one or both ends of the bundle.
  • the or each towhead has valves, connectors and manifolds to facilitate subsea coupling of spool or jumper pipes that integrate the bundle into a production installation when the bundle has been lowered to the seabed.
  • the or each towhead may also include equipment for subsea processing of production fluids, or to perform other subsea functions.
  • the bundle and towhead(s) are launched together into the sea to be towed as a unit to an offshore installation site, where they are then landed on the seabed at the required location.
  • Other marine pipelaying techniques involve fabrication of a rigid subsea pipeline aboard a surface vessel.
  • Rigid pipelines may also be installed in reel-lay operations, where the pipeline is prefabricated and spooled onto a reel to be unspooled and straightened before being launched from a vessel into the sea.
  • subsea pipelines are routinely fitted with accessories during installation to provide operational flexibility, to create desired field layouts and to support future field extensions.
  • accessories may be disposed at the ends of a pipeline and at positions along its length. They include in-line tee assemblies (ILTs or ITAs), pipeline end manifolds (PLEMs), pipeline end terminations (PLETs, sometimes called flowline end terminations or FLETs), tie-in branches, valves, connectors, wyes, tees, shutdown valves, pigging connections, pig-launching and pig-receiving equipment and other subsea structures.
  • ILTs or ITAs in-line tee assemblies
  • PLMs pipeline end manifolds
  • PLETs pipeline end terminations
  • tie-in branches valves, connectors, wyes, tees, shutdown valves, pigging connections, pig-launching and pig-receiving equipment and other subsea structures.
  • an ILT typically weighs several tons. Larger accessories such as PLETs may weigh tens of tons, whereas towheads of pipeline bundles may weigh hundreds of tons.
  • the weight of such a heavy structure must not be borne by a pipe that is attached to the structure.
  • the structure must instead be supported by a foundation that provides an interface with the seabed.
  • the foundation In addition to supporting the weight of the structure and resisting external loads, the foundation has to cope with the elevated centre of gravity of the structure that it supports and the torque that may be applied by jumper or spool pipes attached to the structure.
  • the foundation must keep the structure and the attached pipe stable by resisting rotation and excessive lateral movement and must also avoid excessive settlement or embedment into the seabed soil.
  • Conventional subsea foundations are of two main types, namely pile foundations and mat foundations.
  • Piles are generally cylindrical and are elongated vertically to be buried deeply in the seabed soil, in an upright orientation. Piles are intrinsically designed to resist any horizontal movement across the seabed, although they may be surmounted by a docking system that allows for some horizontal movement of the structure being supported.
  • Mat foundations typically known in the art as mudmats, are generally flat and are designed to lie on the seabed in a substantially horizontal plane to spread the weight loads that they carry in use.
  • the principle of a mudmat is to provide a bearing area that is sufficient to avoid or to minimise embedment of the foundation into the seabed. In principle, therefore, mudmats should be as long and wide as possible to define a large base area.
  • mudmat size imposed by considerations of cost, weight and ease of installation.
  • One such constraint is the capability of a vessel that installs mudmats with their related accessories as part of a subsea pipeline. In that case, the pipelaying equipment on the vessel has to allow enough space for the mudmats to pass through as the pipeline is launched into the sea.
  • a mudmat typically comprises a horizontal top plate, which is usually rectangular. An example is shown in WO 2008/155747 . Mudmats may also be paired, one each side of the pipeline, and are typically about 5m to 10m in width and about 5m to 20m in length. A mudmat may even be mounted on a pile, as shown in WO 2018/111120 , which provides additional bearing capacity.
  • Mudmats can be designed to slide horizontally across the seabed to accommodate thermal expansion and contraction that causes a pipeline to lengthen and shorten.
  • mudmats can be designed to remain substantially static on the seabed but with provision for the supported structure to move to a limited extent with respect to the mudmat.
  • a vertical peripheral skirt around the top plate may embed into and engage with the seabed soil.
  • the soil may also be engaged by vertical wall-like members that extend across the underside of the top plate.
  • perforated foundations are penetrated from top to bottom by multiple voids or through-openings distributed within the plan area of the foundation.
  • An example of a perforated foundation is a grillage that comprises an array of mutually-spaced structurally-connected strip footings or plates of steel arranged in parallel and/or intersecting vertical planes as a grid or grating to penetrate and engage the seabed soil.
  • the plates are thin compared with their height, typically more than five times higher or longer in the vertical direction than their horizontal thickness.
  • the centre-to-centre horizontal spacing between adjacent plates is also substantially greater than their thickness, again typically by a factor of at least five.
  • grillages can achieve a vertical load-bearing capacity that is similar to solid, substantially unperforated foundations of the same plan area. Also, grillages may offer savings in material and weight, albeit with potentially greater cost of fabrication. However, a grillage is not designed to slide across the seabed.
  • a subsea foundation may also be created or reinforced by depositing a thick berm of rock ballast onto the seabed.
  • this is challenging and expensive, particularly as an additional foundation element such as a mudmat may still be required.
  • the plan area of the berm has to be much greater than the plan area of the mudmat.
  • a polymeric sole plate on the underside of a solid-surface mudmat is therefore sometimes used as a low-friction interface between the mudmat and the seabed.
  • the use of a sole plate on a grillage would not be practical and would undermine the hydrodynamic benefits of such a foundation.
  • a foundation may be subjected to significant lateral loads in use, transverse to the length of an associated pipeline or bundle.
  • a pipeline may be curved in plan view, hence exerting a lateral force component in response to thermal expansion or contraction.
  • a structure supported by the foundation may be subjected to ocean currents or, in relatively shallow water, to the effects of storms. Over time, this leads to an effect known as 'walking' of the pipeline across the seabed from its original position.
  • CN 205822279 describes a system that is designed to reduce the effect of scour around a marine structure.
  • the system includes a flexible cover layer and a ballast layer which may take the form of a sandbag or a concrete block.
  • JP H09195248 describes a sheet that can be laid on the surface of the seabed during a drainage operation.
  • the sheet is formed by overlapping edges of multiple sheet members, such that a projection on one sheet member is received in a recess of a neighbouring sheet member.
  • GB 2511500 describes mudmats having foundation elements that are movable from a stowed position to a deployed position through sliding or pivoting.
  • US 2013/070565 describes a flexible mat for covering a cable and associated sensor that are provided on the seabed for geological monitoring.
  • EP 2042794 relates to a pipeline that is laid in a zig-zag configuration using guide assemblies that each include a vertical guide post and a perforated mudmat.
  • US 2017/350536 describes a pipeline supported by a foundation on the seabed. Guides provided on the foundation at either side of the pipeline prevent lateral movement of a section of pipeline extending through the guides, whilst allowing longitudinal movement of the pipeline with respect to the guides.
  • the present invention provides a sliding subsea foundation that comprises a polymeric shoe layer, for example of high density polyethylene (HDPE), wherein the shoe layer defines a soil-engaging face that comprises at least one elongate groove.
  • the or each groove may have various cross-sectional shapes, for example part-elliptical or polygonal.
  • the foundation comprises an array of substantially parallel grooves, which grooves may be separated from neighbouring grooves by at least one land. Two or more of the lands may be integral with the shoe layer and with each other.
  • the or each land may, for example, have a width that is at least one third of the width of each groove, in a direction orthogonal to a length direction of the grooves.
  • each groove may have a depth, in a direction orthogonal to the soil-engaging face, of no more than twice the width of the or each land.
  • the or each groove is suitably shallower than a thickness dimension of the shoe layer in a direction orthogonal to the soil-engaging face.
  • the or each groove may have a closed top that spans the groove.
  • the closed top of a groove may conveniently be defined by the shoe layer or by a structural member of the foundation or structure to which the shoe layer is attached, such as a mudmat.
  • a subsea structure may be supported on the foundation, in which case a subsea pipeline may be attached to the subsea structure for fluid communication with the subsea structure.
  • the or each groove is suitably aligned with a longitudinal axis of the pipeline where the pipeline is attached to the subsea structure.
  • the friction angle at an interface between the foundation and the seabed soil may advantageously be lower in a longitudinal direction parallel to the length of the or each groove than in a transverse direction orthogonal to the length of the or each groove.
  • the interface friction angle may be substantially equal to the effective internal friction angle of the seabed soil.
  • the interface friction angle may be between 3° and 7° less than the effective internal friction angle of the seabed soil.
  • the inventive concept embraces a corresponding method of supporting a subsea structure on the seabed, as defined by claim 14.
  • the method comprises: supporting the structure on a sliding subsea foundation that comprises a polymeric shoe layer; and engaging soil of the seabed with a soil-engaging face of the shoe layer, which face comprises at least one elongate groove.
  • the method of the invention may further comprise: promoting sliding of the foundation across the seabed in a direction parallel to the or each groove; and resisting sliding of the foundation across the seabed in a direction orthogonal to the or each groove.
  • the foundation may slide parallel to the or each groove in response to thermal expansion or contraction of a pipeline that is attached to the structure and that extends substantially parallel to the or each groove.
  • the method of the invention may also comprise the preliminary step of attaching the shoe layer to the foundation or to the structure as a shoe plate that comprises an array of two or more grooves.
  • the method of the invention may further comprise the preliminary steps of: lowering the foundation or the structure to the seabed with the or each groove of the shoe layer exposed on an underside of the foundation or the structure; and sandwiching the shoe layer between the seabed and the foundation or the structure. Soil of the seabed may then substantially fill the or each downwardly-opening groove up to a closed top of the groove.
  • HDPE is hardwearing enough to be used as a sacrificial interface layer in a permanent foundation design.
  • the effectiveness of the foundation translates into cost savings in ballasting material and also valuable reductions in installation vessel time and in the pumping spread required on board the vessel.
  • the invention improves the contact or interface between the seabed and a polymeric sole plate on the underside of a mudmat, towhead or other structure to optimise friction, even if the sole plate is damaged or worn.
  • Embodiments of the invention provide an interface between a foundation mat and the seabed, the interface comprising a solid polymer layer, for example of HDPE, having at least one groove in contact with the seabed.
  • a solid polymer layer for example of HDPE
  • the foundation mat may support a structure in fluid communication with a pipeline, such as a towhead or a pipeline accessory.
  • a pipeline such as a towhead or a pipeline accessory.
  • the or each groove may suitably extend in the axial direction of the pipeline.
  • the groove may have a substantially triangular or part-cylindrical shape, such as a half-cylindrical shape.
  • a rim or ridge between two adjacent grooves may have a width that is at least equal to one third of the width of a groove.
  • Embodiments of the invention also implement a method for installing a foundation for supporting oil and gas production equipment on the seabed. That method comprises the following steps: assembling the structure onshore; attaching a polymeric shoe layer under the structure, onshore or offshore, wherein the polymeric shoe layer defines a soil-engaging face that comprises at least one elongate groove; and installing the structure with the polymeric shoe layer under water onto the seabed, so that the shoe layer engages soil.
  • the invention resides in a sliding subsea foundation that comprises a polymeric shoe layer on the underside of a mudmat or subsea structure.
  • the shoe layer defines a soil-engaging face that comprises an array of parallel grooves.
  • the grooves are shallower than the thickness of the shoe layer such that each groove has a closed top, defined by and integral with the shoe layer, that spans the groove.
  • a shoe plate 10 is moulded as a homogenous solid unitary body from a polymer material such as HDPE.
  • the cross-sectional shape of the shoe plate 10 may be imparted by the moulding process or after moulding, for example by milling or otherwise machining a surface of a moulded panel or block.
  • the shoe plate 10 comprises an upper face 12 and a lower face 14 that extend in substantially parallel planes and are spaced apart by the overall thickness of the shoe plate 10, measured on an axis orthogonal to those planes.
  • the soil-engaging lower face 14 of the shoe plate 10 has a grooved texture that comprises an array of straight grooves 16, being trough-like elongate recesses.
  • the grooves 16 extend part-way through the thickness of the shoe plate 10. Thus, the top of each groove 16 is closed by the remaining, unperforated thickness of the shoe plate 10.
  • the grooves 16 are substantially parallel.
  • the array is substantially unidirectional.
  • the grooves 16 are substantially equi-spaced in this example.
  • the grooves 16 of the array are distributed substantially uniformly across the width of the shoe plate 10.
  • the grooves 16 are open-ended and are uniform in cross-section, continuous and uninterrupted along their full length.
  • Adjacent grooves 16 of the array are bounded and spaced apart by elongate ridges or lands 18 that alternate with the grooves 16 across the width of the shoe plate 10.
  • the lands 18 are aligned with each other in a common plane that defines the plane of the lower face 14.
  • the lands 18 are substantially coplanar.
  • the lands 18 are each substantially planar, save for radiused edges at the interfaces between the lands 18 and the grooves 16 that adjoin them.
  • each land 18 has a width WL between an adjacent pair of grooves 16 of at least one third of the width WG of each groove 16.
  • the grooves 16 are mutually spaced apart by at least one third of their width WG in a direction orthogonal to their length, parallel to the plane of the lower face 14 of the shoe plate 10.
  • Each groove 16 has a depth DG in an upward direction orthogonal to the lower face 14.
  • the depth DG of each groove 16 is substantially equal to the width WL of each land 18 in this example.
  • DG may be more or less than WL but is preferably no more than twice WL.
  • each groove 16 is part-cylindrical and has a part-circular cross-section, in this example substantially semi-circular. Other curved or part-elliptical cross-sectional shapes are possible.
  • FIG 3 shows a variant of the shoe plate 10 in which like numerals are used for like features.
  • each groove 16 has a substantially triangular cross-section whose general shape is akin to an isosceles or equilateral triangle.
  • the apex of the triangular cross-section defining the base of the groove 16 is suitably radiused as shown.
  • Other polygonal cross-sectional shapes are possible.
  • the shape of the planar upper face 12 of the shoe plate 10 is chosen to form an interface that complements the shape of the underside of a mudmat 20 to which the shoe plate 10 is to be attached as shown in Figures 4 and 5 .
  • the upper face 12 is not necessarily textured and is suitably plain.
  • Figures 4 and 5 show the shoe plate 10 of Figures 1 and 2 mounted to the flat underside of a sliding mudmat 20.
  • the mudmat 20 is typically of steel.
  • the shoe plate 10 extends continuously across the underside of the mudmat 20 and may be bonded or otherwise attached to the mudmat 20 onshore or offshore.
  • the mudmat 20 is shown here installed on the seabed 22.
  • the shoe plate 10 is sandwiched between the mudmat 20 and the seabed 22 with its grooved lower face 14 engaged with the sandy or silty soil of the seabed 22.
  • the mudmat 20 is shown supporting a subsea structure 24 in the form of a pipeline accessory such as a PLET.
  • a subsea pipeline 26 is shown joined to the structure 24 for fluid communication between them.
  • the pipeline 26 will tend to extend and contract along its central longitudinal axis 28 in response to changes in the temperature of the fluid within the pipeline 26.
  • it is desirable that the mudmat 20 can slide across the seabed 22 in directions parallel to the central longitudinal axis 28 of the pipeline 26.
  • the grooves 16 formed in the lower face 14 of the shoe plate 10 extend substantially parallel to the central longitudinal axis 28 of the pipeline 26.
  • longitudinal direction LD parallel to the length of the grooves 16 the interface friction angle is maintained at around ⁇ ' - 5° to allow limited freedom of longitudinal movement that facilitates thermal expansion of the pipeline 26.
  • transverse direction TD orthogonal to the length of the grooves 16 there is an increase of the interface friction angle to around ⁇ ' .
  • this resists unintended displacement of the mudmat 20 under lateral loads in use, transverse to the central longitudinal axis 28 of the pipeline 26, which could otherwise result in the structure 24 and the pipeline 26 'walking' across the seabed 22.
  • the polymer material of the shoe plate may be reinforced by strands or fibres.
  • the grooves in the lower surface of the shoe plate have radiused edges and bases in the examples shown but they could have sharp edges and bases.
  • the lands between the grooves need not be planar but could comprise sharp or radiused edges, peaks or ridges.
  • the shoe plate preferably extends across a majority of the plan area of the mudmat but need not extend across all of the plan area of the mudmat.
  • the shoe plate could be discontinuous or more than one shoe plate could be attached to the mudmat. It would also be possible to attach a shoe plate directly to a subsea structure without an intervening mudmat.
  • a shoe plate or shoe layer from an array of mutually-spaced parallel polymer strips that are affixed to the underside of a mudmat or directly to a subsea structure. Such strips would define the grooves in the spaces between them and would each define a respective land between adjacent grooves. In this case, the grooves could extend as slots through the full thickness of the shoe plate or shoe layer.

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